Thursday, July 20, 2017

Uber now lets riders in India ditch cards and pay via UPI

Since last August, India has been championing its Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a simplified system that lets people pay for purchases and transfer money instantly via mobile across banks. And now, Uber’s taking advantage of it by allowing users to pay for rides using UPI. That’s huge, because it negates the need for passengers to add a credit or debit card, and also takes digital wallets – a growing phenomenon in India, with major players like PayTM, Freecharge and Mobikwik – out of the equation. With that, Uber is the latest major global player to adopt UPI; Truecaller introduced a…